Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

Mercado Park Series – New Thread Sax Quartet

UNPLAY Festival – A celebration and exploration of the musician’s “role” in the shifting spaces of our post-microblog/tweet/story era.

Three nights. Three perspectives.

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

For more information: http://unplayfestival.com/

Ticket prices:
Festival Pass: $25
Single show: $10 (advance), $12 (at the door)
Advance tickets available at: http://unplay.eventbrite.com/

THURSDAY, JUNE 13
Hi/r/stories

Hi/r/stories is about directly engaging with history. If ePhemera and REPlayboth explore alternatives to specific narratives in “classical” music, Hi/r/storiesis centered around narrative itself. What stories get told in the canonical history? How can music articulate an alternative hi/r/story? And in our digital culture of sharing and re-sharing and adding commentary, how has the process of writing, re-writing, and understanding history changed?

THINGNY and PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LABORATORY
thingNY/PPL: “Private Time”
Paul Pinto: “mini004”
thingNY/PPL: “Violence”
Frederic Rzewski: “Attica”
thingNY/PPL: “Endurance Exercises”

FACE THE MUSIC’S PANNONIA QUARTET
Michael Daugherty: “Sing Sing”
SRIRACHA
David Su: “…like kites with no strings”

IKTUS PERCUSSION
Dominic Donato: “Reuse, Recycle, Reduce”
Iannis Xenakis: “Okho”
Frederic Rzewski: “Coming Together”

Presented by Incubator Arts Project:
Saturday, May 25 @10pm

Join us for the first installment of the development series Short Form.
$6 cash only at the door

GILLIAN CHADSEY & IVAN TALIJANCIC/WAXFACTORY
SPELL FOR FAINTING#2

A structured improvisational piece for a performer and a DJ using disparate textual sources, 25 musical selections and sounds, and over 50 objects as an investigation in the chaos of creation. Phase 1: Objects – curious ephemera or emblems of a lingering encounter?

EVAN JOHNSON AND CHIP RODGERS
SOUL TRAVEL WORKSHOP

Evan and Chip are attempting to resurrect their past lives. The two best friends document their findings as they visit psychics, meditate, hold séances, undergo hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis, and learn just as much about their own messed-up relationship as the ones they might have had.

THINGNY
WHISPER PIECE

Experimental music collective thingNY’s new set of operatic scenes opens with a soundscape of sirens, speech and singing, experienced from different perspectives depending on your seat and your time in the space. The scene depicts stories and philosophies from a community about to be ravaged by an approaching storm.

BOOM BAT GESTURE PERFORMANCE GROUP
ZOOM THOUSAND TIME

In Zoom Thousand Time, BOOM BAT GESTURE applies the visual concept of an infinite zoom to time-based performance. Using a live 10 minute improvisation as source, BBG will zoom into/strech out one minute of each previous piece for all ensuing presentations, reducing the source material by 90% each time, culminating in a final performance using only the material that occurred in 3/5 of a second of the original source. Using this hyper-minimalist, ever-shrinking palette, they will navigate forms, existing and invented, in an effort to find freedom and expression under intense limitations.

Access the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/368874496552664/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

Friday, May 17, 6:30-8:30pm
MADE HERE
Local Project
45-10 Davis St. Long Island City
Free (RSVP by May 15th rsvp@madehereproject.org)

thingNY is delighted to be featured as part of MADE HERE’s 2013-2014 season. Please join us for their second screening and public discussion on the issue of Criticism. For more information on MADE Here and the HERE Arts Center, visit: http://madehereproject.org/

Ogni Suono presents HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Joined by NEW THREAD QUARTET
(Geoff Landman, Kristen McKeon, Zach Herchen, Erin Rogers)

@ The Firehouse Space
246 Frost St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://thefirehousespace.org/

Works by:

Halim Beere
James Bunch
Quinn Collins
Ian Dicke
Claudio Gabriele
Stephen Taylor
Michael Djupstrom
Kati Agócs
Daniel Wohl
Gilbert Galindo

Tickets: $10

Artwork by Isaac Klunk
https://www.facebook.com/KlunkArt
http://www.iklunk.com/

Saxophone and power sander alike are power tools professionally and highly proficiently wielded by women composers, performance artists, and interdisciplinary time-based artists.

7:30pm – Thursday, April 18, 2013
Panoply Performance Laboratory
104 Meserole Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130410/east-williamsburg/women-with-power-tools-perform-with-drills-hair-buzzers-sanders/slideshow/370418

Ivy Castellanos – construction as action art
www.ivycastellanos.com/

Lindsey Drury – embodied concepts
www.drearysomebody.com

Courtney Leigh Novak – transdiscipline, all tools out www.maninwhitedress.com/?p=3843

Erin Rogers – saxophone glory
www.erinrogers.com

Lopi LaRoe – saws through the boundaries between art and activism
www.lopilaroe.com/

Esther Neff – dremels and drills
www.panoplylab.org/estherneff

This event is part of the No Wave Performance Task Force (NWPTF). The No Wave Performance Task Force (NWPTF) is a collective that enables performative social sculpture, practicing Feminist construction rather than reacting solely to existing conditions of patriarchy, gender, sexuality, and “Other” vs. “Us” dichotomies. www.nowavetaskforce.org

Women with Power Tools

NYsoundCircuit 4.3
“1, 2, 3″

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8 PM, The DiMenna Center, NYC

NYsoundCircuit – the multimedia salon series – closes the season with one of its most varied sonic and visual explorations yet. Featured is the one and only turntablist MARIA CHAVEZ, making it as easy as “1,2,3” with a solo, duo, and finally a trio set woven through the evening with Sandy Ewen and Daniel Neumann. Also lined up are ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN premiering a new set of songs for voice, clocks, accordions, toys, and electronics and violinist ANDIE SPRINGER performing “Dandelion” by MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN, exploring childhood manipulations of old home movies. Trumpeter HUGO MORENO performs “Toying” by Chelsea Music Festival Composer-in-Residence ERIC NATHAN. Saxophones wail as the NEW THREAD QUARTET delivers music from the lyrical to the virtuosic. DANIEL NEUMANN performs a multi-channel live improvisation, “A Corner as a Field” while the CURT SYDNOR QUARTET reimagines the architecture of Louis Sullivan in “Materials and their Destiny.”

Join us once again at NYsoundCircuit!

RSVP on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/382736725172895

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$12 entry
$25 entry & unlimited drinks
(Credit cards accepted)

The DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

info@nysoundcircuit.com
www.nysoundcircuit.com

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MUSIC for acoustics and electro-acoustics by Kati Agócs, Maria Chavez, Michael Djupstrom, Gilbert Galindo, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Eric Nathan, Daniel Neumann, and Angélica Negrón

MUSIC PERFORMANCES by Maria Chavez, turntablist; Sandy Ewen, prepared guitar; Hugo Moreno, trumpet; Angélica Negrón, multiple instruments; Daniel Neumann, sound artist; Andie Springer, violin; Curt Sydnor Quartet; and the New Thread Saxophone Quartet

VIDEO & PROJECTIONS by Nikolai Antonie, Maria Chavez, and Rob Dietz

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NYsoundCircuit is a multimedia salon series showcasing various arts disciplines and bringing their audiences together in an engaging environment for a full evening of works by contemporary artists.

NYsoundCircuit

It’s always sunny when thingNY travels to Philadelphia.
Catch us in 2 performances on Sunday, May 19th:

Fidget Space
1714 N. Mascher Ave.
Philadelphia, PA

Andrea Clearfield’s Salon
Secret location
Philadelphia, PA

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

yarn/wire, either/or, thingNY

Firehouse Space New Music Series, hosted by IKTUS Percussion

Firehouse Space
462 Frost Street
Brooklyn, NY

www.thefirehousespace.org
www.thingNY.com

For the next four weeks thingNY will be releasing a new YouTube video every Thursday! Today, Thursday Mar 14 through Thursday Mar 21, please enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sdXcgkAas

GLUE – a structured improvisation modeled on the Fluxus piece For a Drummer (Fluxversion 1) by George Brecht which asks that a “performer drums with drumsticks or drum brushes over the surface of wet mud or thick glue until brushes or sticks get stuck and can’t be lifted.” The accompanying ensemble members are each equipped with their primary instrument and an electronic instrument capable of “getting stuck” on its own.

thingNY performs Glue at The Tank
Filmed February 21, 2013 in New York City
Presented by Guy Barash’s Eavesdropping Series

For more information about thingNY, please visit:

www.thingNY.com